A vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto specific other bacteria – including certain human pathogens – has the potential to serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases, a new study indicates.
The Rice Hall Information Technology Engineering Building, part of a new gateway for engineering and science at the University of Virginia, will be dedicated Nov. 18 at 11 a.m. As part of the day's celebration, Dean Kamen, whose inventions include the Segway Personal Transporter, will speak at 3 p.m. in Rice Hall's Olsson Auditorium.
The spread of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement to cities across the country has led to a national discussion on the role of corporations and brought the term "corporate personhood" to the fore in recent weeks.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to a team lead by University of Virginia computer scientist David Evans for a project to develop privacy-preserving technologies. Secure computation is a long-standing goal of computer science that aims to allow people to cooperate in computations without exposing their data.
In response to the needs of a nation embracing the Industrial Revolution, the Board of Visitors at the still-young University of Virginia in 1836 established civil engineering as a formal course of study.
In light of Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Job's death from complications of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cancer expert, researcher and innovator Kimberly Kelly, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, can discuss this disease and its complications, which affects one in 72 people in the U.S.
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Karen McDowell, an information security analyst at the University of Virginia, is available for interviews about cybersecurity in general and about "spear-phishing" in particular.
A strategy for preventing school violence that emphasizes early attention to student behavior problems significantly reduces bullying and school suspensions, according to a new study by professor and clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.
Michael P. Straightiff, director of biomedical engineering commercialization in Case Western Reserve University's Technology Transfer Office, has been named director of the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, effective Sept. 21.
Young children who watch fast-paced, fantastical television shows may become handicapped in their readiness for learning, according to a new University of Virginia study published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics.
In a challenging national economic climate, the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences received $41.7 million in new private fundraising commitments during fiscal year 2010-11, a 49 percent increase over 2009-10.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan today named John D. Simon, Duke University's vice provost for academic affairs and a respected scientist, as executive vice president and provost, effective Sept. 1.
Coaching middle and high school teachers to enhance the quality of their interactions with students leads to significant gains in students' end-of-school-year achievement test scores, according to a study by researchers at the University of Virginia.
Graduate students in the STEM fields, who both teach and conduct research, demonstrate greater ability to generate testable hypotheses and design experiments than do grad students who only conduct research.
A new study says the rise of cohabiting households with children is a greater threat to the quality and stability of children's lives, and the main reason that family instability continues to increase for the nation's children overall.
Algae-based fuel is one of many options among the array of possible future energy sources. New University of Virginia research shows that while algae-based transportation fuels produce high energy output with minimal land use, their production could come with significant environmental burdens.
Biologists and psychologists know that light affects mood, but a new University of Virginia study indicates that light may also play a role in modulating fear and anxiety.
A new collaborative study at the University of Virginia details for the first time a new type of catalytic site where oxidation catalysis occurs, shedding new light on the inner workings of the process.
The past is about to catch up more often with public radio fans who follow "BackStory with the American History Guys." The popular radio show and podcast, co-hosted by three widely published U.S. historians, two from the University of Virginia and one from the University of Richmond, will soon be expanding from monthly to weekly.
To build a quantum computer, one needs to create and precisely control individual quantum memory units, called qubits, for information processing. Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has just published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of entangled qubits, more precisely a multilevel variant thereof called Qmodes.
The University of Virginia received a $2,445,000 grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission Indemnification & Community Revitalization Commission to help transform industry in Southside Virginia utilizing housing designs created through the University's School of Architecture.
A computer-based diabetes simulation tool developed by University of Virginia researchers is now commercially available, thanks to a partnership with Charlottesville-based medical research firm The Epsilon Group. The protocol is approved by the FDA as an alternative to animal testing of Type 1 diabetes control strategies.
A new study published in the journal Science Education finds that sparking students' interest in science at an early age is more effective at steering them toward eventual careers in the "STEM" fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – than pushing high school students into more advanced courses.
A common reading of the recent subprime mortgage crisis pins the blame on bankers and loan brokers who extended mortgages to those who could not afford them, thereby inflating a housing bubble that was destined to burst.
The University of Virginia schools of Nursing and Medicine have pioneered interprofessional education initiatives that bring nursing and medical students together in common learning experiences. A $746,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation will help to strengthen, expand and assess interprofessional education opportunities, create best practices and new models for other schools to follow.
Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and authority on youth violence and school safety, is co-editor of the just-released "Columbine a Decade Later: The Prevention of Homicidal Violence in Schools," a collection of eight articles that addresses the nature and scope of school violence in the U.S. and abroad, reviews relevant research findings and identifies promising prevention strategies.
The targeting of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was consistent with the U.N. charter and U.S. law and not an illegal assassination as some critics have argued, two national security law experts affirmed.
The University of Virginia and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation have teamed to create a $20 million endowment to foster research collaboration between biomedical engineers and clinicians, with the goal of developing new technologies to improve patient care and human health.
Teams of students from seven institutions of higher learning in Virginia and Maryland will play the University of Virginia Bay Game on Earth Day, April 22.
An interdisciplinary team of University of Virginia researchers has been awarded a shot at a $25 million prize to develop a nonsurgical method for sterilizing cats and dogs.
Female athletes who sustain a concussion report different symptoms than their male counterparts, according to research performed at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation has selected internationally renowned diabetes technology scientist Boris P. Kovatchev for its top honor: the Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year award.
Russia's boreal forest – the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country's cold northern regions – is undergoing an accelerating large-scale shift in vegetation types as a result of globally and regionally warming climate. That in turn is creating an even warmer climate in the region, according to a new study published in the journal Global Change Biology.
University of Virginia English professor Stephen Railton's new edition of "Huck Funn" focuses on "the specific issue that has been so inseparable from the novel in its public life for the last 25 or 30 years – the issue about whether it's racist or not."
Two University of Virginia law professors demystify the disappearing art of public speaking in a new book that explains how to master vital rhetorical skills.
People who want to eat healthy and live sustainably have a new way to measure their impact on the environment: a Web-based tool. that calculates an individual's "nitrogen footprint." The calculator is a project of the International Nitrogen Initiative, a global network of scientists who share research and data on the nitrogen dilemma.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the use of virtual reality driving simulators to train and evaluate the driving skills of teens with Asperger's and high-functioning autism, both of which are considered autism spectrum disorders.
Edward G. Lengel, editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, is available for commentary about the Father of Our Country, whose 279th birthday will be observed Feb. 22. Lengel is the author of "Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory," published Jan. 18 by Harper.
The first national survey to focus on how the "Great Recession" has affected marriage in the United States, sponsored by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, finds both good and bad news.
In light of current events in Egypt, the University of Virginia offers the following expert for comment: William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, College of Arts & Sciences.
University of Virginia engineering professor is available to comment on the report of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which is being released Thursday.
Psychologists Joseph and Claudia Allen burst five myths we hold about teenagers and suggest simple ways to raise young people who are both empathetic and mature.
One of the great and fundamental questions in physics is: Why is there matter? Physicists theorize that in the instant after the Big Bang created the makings of the universe, there were nearly equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, protons and anti-protons, neutrons and anti-neutrons. They should have annihilated each other, resulting in … nothing.
Drawing on the latest national data, a new report, "When Marriage Disappears," concludes that marriage is in trouble among Middle America, with trends in non-marital childbearing, divorce and marital quality in Middle America increasingly resembling those of the poor, where marriage is fragile and weak.
Tipsheet: Shopping Online? With the continued growth of online shopping, and today's "Cyber Monday," Karen McDowell of the University of Virginia is available to help your audience or readers keep their computers, their identities and their credit cards safe.
Tipsheet: Expert can advise readers and audiences on keeping their credit cards, computers and identities safe while cyber-shopping this holiday season.
University of Virginia spin-out PluroGen Therapeutics Inc. commemorated the start of a new relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense at a reception held Nov. 5 at U.Va. PluroGen recently entered into an agreement worth up to $8.6 million with the Department of Defense as part of its Limb Salvage and Regenerative Medicine Initiative.
University of Virginia chemical engineers Robert J. Davis and Matthew Neurock have uncovered the key features that control the high reactivity of gold nanoparticles in a process that oxidizes alcohols in water. The research is an important first step in unlocking the potential of using metal catalysts for developing biorenewable chemicals.
A new University of Virginia study is examining what factors cause some minorities to be underrepresented in the ranks of biomedical researchers – a situation that could have a negative impact on health care.
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Sadly, given the highly publicized suicides of four students in recent weeks, attributed at least partially to bullying, raising awareness about such abuse couldn't come at a better time. Two experts at the University of Virginia can comment and offer suggestions to alleviate the problem. They are Curry School Education professors Dewey Cornell and Peter Sheras.
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